When i moved, I ditched the TV and set up a computer in my living room as the same "focal point" a TV would have.

It's been years since I gave a rat's ass about screensavers ("blank" or "starfield" were good enough for me) but now I think it'd be cool to have some good screen savers for when my "TV" isn't on.

But screensavers you can find free online make me very nervous. They're executeables. I've seen some nasty things done by screensavers that make me not want to take a chance on downloading just any old thing.

So, tell me about some SAFE screensavers you have and where you got them. I'm interested in:

If you have a lot of your own pictures, and you're running XP, you should have an image slideshow screensaver option built into Windows. That's what my machine is set to; it's kind of cool seeing a random assortment of my pictures.

Screen savers were once necessary to keep from burning an image into your monitor screen. They're no longer necessary, except for entertainment. I use a photo of my dog or some St. Louis Cardinals player as my desktop background, and after 20 minutes of inactivity, the monitor goes blank.

I knew one guy who had a screensaver with a tinky-tink soundtrack that would kick in twenty minutes after he left the office. Most of the folks in that office would work 30 minutes in the office in the morning, then spend the rest of the day in the plant. The one woman who had to stay there all day was just about ready to take a sledgehammer to the one computer with the tacky soundtrack. I showed her how to shut the music off.

AskNott - I had a similar thing-
I once turned off the screen saver of a co-worker. She'd always leave early for lunch and it would soon start with ducks swooping and quacking. When she found out I'd turned it off she was livid, really ranting. And she complained to the supervisor. Who told her not to annoy the other workers and turn her machine off before going to lunch. When she said that was impractical he laughed, telling her he knew she left the screen on so he wouldn't know if she'd ducked out early. So after that, not only did she have to turn off the noise, but she had to wait until noon to leave. She never forgave me, but I thought it was funny, poetic justice.